Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
TOM LANDRYEvery coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, ‘I almost didn’t recognize you without a hat on’, I could have bought the Cowboys myself.
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People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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